Name: Salt Preserved Cucumbers , for Sauces , Soups, SsC.
Ingredients: fine cucumbers; boiling water; coarse sea salt

Salt Preserved Cucumbers , for Sauces , Soups, SsC.

Ingredients

fine cucumbers
boiling water
coarse sea salt

Directions

Wash the cucumbers thoroughly.
Place them in a container.
Pour boiling water over the cucumbers until fully submerged.
Add coarse sea salt to the water, ensuring it dissolves completely.
Let the cucumbers sit in the brine until ready to use.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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Salt Preserved Cucumbers , for Sauces , Soups, SsC.